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Shintarō Abe
was a Japanese politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1986. He was a leading member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was the father of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and part of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family. Early life and education Shintaro Abe was born on April 29, 1924, in Tokyo City, Tokyo, the only son of politician and member of Parliament Kan Abe. He was raised in his father's home prefecture of Yamaguchi from soon after his birth. His mother was an army general's daughter. Personal life Abe married Yōko Abe, Yoko Kishi, daughter of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, in 1951. His second son, Shinzo Abe, served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020. His third son, Nobuo Kishi, was adopted by his brother-in-law shortly after birth, won a House of Representatives seat in 2012 and was appointed Minister of Defense in 2020. He was from Yamaguchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe (surname)
Abe ( , - written: ) is the 25th most common Japanese surname. Less common variants are , and . Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese socialite, radio personality and wife of Shinzō Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan *, Japanese announcer and actress *, Japanese writer *, Japanese singer and actress *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese synchronized swimmer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese politician *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese lawyer, police bureaucrat and politician *, pen name of Naoya Abe, Japanese manga writer *, Japanese-English actress *, Japanese general *, Japanese judoka *, 7th-century Japanese general *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese poet *Hiroshi Abe (other), multiple people *Hiroyuki Abe (other), multiple people *, Japanese zoologist *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese poet *, Japanese hammer thrower *, Japanese Christian so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaguchi 1st District (1947–1993)
Yamaguchi may refer to: People *Yamaguchi (surname), the 14th most popular Japanese surname, including a list of people. Places *Yamaguchi Prefecture, the westernmost prefecture of Honshū island of Japan **Yamaguchi (city), capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture ***Yamaguchi Station (Yamaguchi), a JR West railway station, located in the center of Yamaguchi-shi ***Shin-Yamaguchi Station, a railway station in Yamaguchi-shi (Sanyō Shinkansen line) *Yamaguchi, Nagano, a village in Nagano Prefecture Fiction *Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi, the character played by Yukie Nakama in ''Gokusen'', a Japanese TV show *Yamaguchi-sensei, a doctor in the manga/anime series ''Fighting Spirit (manga), Fighting Spirit'' *U.S.S. ''Yamaguchi'', an ''Ambassador Class'' Federation starship in the ''Star Trek'' franchise *Yamaguchi Digital Pets, a fictional digital pets company mentioned in ''Fanboy & Chum Chum'' *Yamaguchi Tadashi, a member of the Karasuno volleyball club in the manga/anime series ''Haikyu!!'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). Yamaguchi Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the north and Hiroshima Prefecture to the northeast. Yamaguchi (city), Yamaguchi is the capital and Shimonoseki is the largest city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Ube, Yamaguchi, Ube, Shūnan, and Iwakuni. Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western tip of Honshu with coastlines on the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea, and separated from the island of Kyushu by the Kanmon Straits. History Yamaguchi Prefecture was created by the merger of the provinces of Suō Province, Suō and Nagato Province, Nagato. During the rise of the samurai class during the Heian period, Heian and Kamakura period, Kamakura Periods (794–1333), the Ouchi family of Suō Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobusuke Kishi
was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. He is remembered for his exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, imprisonment as a suspected war criminal following World War II, and provocation of the massive Anpo protests as prime minister, retrospectively receiving the nickname "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; ''Shōwa no yōkai''). Kishi was the founder of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family, Satō–Kishi–Abe dynasty in Japanese politics, with his younger brother Eisaku Satō and his grandson Shinzo Abe both later serving as prime ministers of Japan. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kishi graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1920. He rose through the ranks at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Japan), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and during the 1930s led the industrial development of Manchukuo, where he exploited Chinese s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satō–Kishi–Abe Family
The Satō–Kishi–Abe family is one of the most prominent list of political families, political families politics of Japan, in Japan. Nobusuke Kishi, Kishi's brother Eisaku Satō and Kishi's grandson Shinzo Abe served as Prime Minister of Japan for a List of prime ministers of Japan by time in office, combined total of over 20 years. Kishi led the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) in its first election as a combined party, and all politicians from this family are associated with the LDP. Family Membership *Hidesuke and Moyo Satō had three children: **Ichirō Satō (佐藤 市郎; 28 August 1889 – 12 April 1958) Imperial Japanese Navy Naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II, Vice Admiral. **Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke; born Nobusuke Satō; 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987), Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister: 1957–1960, Minister of Foreign Affairs: 1956–1957. *** Yoko Abe (岸 洋子; née Kishi; 11 June 1928 – 4 February 2024), marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the '' Tenmongata'', founded in 1684, and the Shōheizaka Institute. Although established under its current name, the university was renamed in 1886 and was further retitled to distinguish it from other Imperial Universities established later. It served under this name until the official dissolution of the Empire of Japan in 1947, when it reverted to its original name. Today, the university consists of 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools, and 11 affiliated research institutes. As of 2023, it has a total of 13,974 undergraduate students and 14,258 graduate students. The majority of the university's educational and research facilities are concentrated within its three main Tokyo campuses: Hongō, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP, the Lib Dems, or , is a major conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * and Japanese nationalism, nationalistSources describing the LDP as nationalist: * * * * * * A Weiss (31 May 2018). Towards a Beautiful Japan: Right-Wing Religious Nationalism in Japan's LDP. List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955, the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System—except from 1993 to 1996, and again from 2009 to 2012. The LDP was formed in 1955 as a merger of two conservative parties, the Liberal Party (Japan, 1950), Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, and was initially led by Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama. The LDP supported Japan's alliance with the United States and fostered close links between Japanese business and government, playing a major role in the country's Japanese eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kan Abe
was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946. A member of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family, he was the father of former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and the grandfather of former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Life Abe was born on 29 April 1894, in Heki (present-day Nagato), Yamaguchi Prefecture, the eldest son of Abe Hyōsuke and his wife Tame. The Abe family was a prominent family of landowners and sake and soy sauce brewers in Heki who had served as '' nanushi'' (village heads) in the Edo period. His father was from the Mukunoki family, a prominent family in Ōtsu, who was adopted into his wife's family upon marriage. Both his parents died by the time he was four, after which he was raised by his aunt Yoshi. Abe graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, the predecessor of the University of Tokyo. Abe stood as a Seiyūkai Party candidate in the February 1928 general election but lost; he was appointed village mayor of Heki in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Kishi
is a Japanese politician. He sat in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2023 representing Yamaguchi’s 2nd District as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. From September 2020 to August 2022 he served as the Minister of Defense. He is the younger brother of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. Early life Nobuo is the third son of Shintaro Abe and Yoko Abe (née Kishi). He was born in Tokyo. Shortly after his birth, he was adopted by his maternal uncle, Seibu Oil chairman Nobukazu Kishi, who could not have children of his own. He did not know about his actual parentage, or his relationship with Shintaro Abe's other sons (Hironobu and Shinzo Abe), until he was preparing to enter university. Kishi spent the first decade of his life living in Tokyo with his grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University in 1981 and joined Sumitomo Corporation, where he worked until 2002. His postings included t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the List of prime ministers of Japan by time in office, longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years in total. Born in Tokyo, Abe was a member of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family as the son of LDP politician Shintaro Abe and grandson of prime minister Nobusuke Kishi. He graduated from Seikei University and briefly attended the University of Southern California before working in industry and party posts, and was first elected to the Japanese House of Representatives, House of Representatives in 1993 Japanese general election, 1993. Abe was LDP secretary-general from 2003 to 2004 and Chief Cabinet Secretary under Junichiro Koizumi from 2005 to 2006, when he replaced Koizumi as prime minister. Abe b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hironobu Abe
; born May 30, 1952) is a Japanese businessman. He is the CEO of AB Communications and former CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation Packaging. A scion of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family, he is the eldest son of politician Shintaro Abe, and the older brother of former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and former minister of defense Nobuo Kishi. Abe was a grandson of former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi and a grand-nephew of former prime minister Eisaku Satō. Biography Hironobu Abe was born in 1952 in Tokyo to Shintaro Abe and Yoko Abe. After attending Seikei Elementary School, Seikei Junior and Senior High School, he entered the Faculty of Economics at Seikei University in 1971. He graduated from either Seikei University or the University of Tokyo in March 1975. 安倍（2020年）227頁 安倍（2020年）231頁 The following year he joined Mitsubishi Corporation and was assigned to the Resources Division No. 3. Abe (2020)Page 233 Abe (2020)Back endpaper cover Abe worked in Tokyo, Hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōko Abe
was a Japanese calligrapher who was the mother of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the daughter of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, the wife of Minister of Foreign Affairs Shintaro Abe, and a member of the Japanese Satō–Kishi–Abe family. Biography Born on 11 June 1928, Yōko Abe was the eldest daughter of Nobusuke Kishi, the widow of Shintaro Abe, and the mother of Hironobu, Shinzo Abe, and Nobuo Kishi. - 毎索にて閲覧 Known for her calligraphy, she was considered to be the "Godmother" of the Kishi-Abe family (a Japanese political family for three generations), and had long been the leader of the wives of members of Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai. She was called the "Godmother of the World of Politics" because she had many followers in politics. Yōko Abe died on 4 February 2024, at the age of 95. Works * 『わたしの安倍晋太郎：岸信介の娘として』（ ネスコ、1992年） Honors * Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
